To add more details to my question: Right now I'm trying to learn web development (having previously done mobile development). The way I'm starting off is by le

To add more details to my question: Right now I'm trying to learn web development (having previously done mobile development). The way I'm starting off is by learning Django using online tutorials. I guess my problem is exacerbated by two things: 1) the field of web development is huge, and becoming proficient in it requires knowing a little about databases, a back-end framework, front-end development (JS, jQuery, HTML,CSS), and eventually some devops stuff for when I move off Heroku; and 2) Django itself is fairly complex (i.e. takes a while to get running at full speed). I try to approach this systematically, with my goal right now of groking Django/the back-end before moving on to learning front-end development and exploring databases (SQL, NoSQL) and devops. HN has definitely given me a good idea of where to start, but it's still a daunting task. My eventual goal is to write mobile/web applications with a back-end. I want to learn all this because I have a long list of all kinds of ideas for services/apps I want to write.